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** Which is funny because he's the [[TheNapoleon shortest guy]] in the group. Shortest ''person'' in the group, when the girls are wearing their heels.
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* {{Badass}}: '''Sterling. Never. Loses.'''

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* {{Badass}}: '''Sterling.'''[[WordOfGod Sterling. Never. Loses.''']]'''
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* WordOfGod: '''[[RuleOfThree Sterling. Never. Loses.]]'''

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* WordOfGod:
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'''[[RuleOfThree Sterling. Never. Loses.]]'''
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!'''Nathan Ford''': The Brains

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!'''Nathan Ford''': The BrainsMastermind
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**He's her pretzel.
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***RIP Lucille.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Surprisingly. He has particular compassion for kids who've drawn the short stick of life, but even spoiled rich kids love him.

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* FriendToAllChildren: Surprisingly. He has particular compassion for kids who've drawn the short stick of life, but even spoiled rich kids love him. Then there's the [[BerserkButton hissy fit]] he throws in "The Morning After Job" until Hardison agrees to detour from a job to stop a domestic dispute because there ''could possibly'' be children involved. Something about Eliot and kids.



* FriendToAllChildren: Not just orphans, either. In "The Wedding Job," she is seen teaching a young girl how to pick a lock.

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* FriendToAllChildren: Not just orphans, either. In "The Wedding Job," she is seen teaching a young girl how to pick a lock. Unlike Eliot, though, she has [[ParentalAbandonment some]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast specific]] [[AbusiveParents reasons]] she is drawn to kids.
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* WhenSheSmiles: Parker is quite pretty regardless, but something about her smile/laugh is just so ridiculously charming and heartwarming (especially when paired with moments of her being goofy). It's grown steadily more frequent as she adjusts to being on the [[{{Nakama}} team]].
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* HiddenDepths: They may appear to be your run-of-the-mill bumbling cops, in season 3, Taggart is revealed to be a Krav Maga instructor for the FBI.

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* HiddenDepths: They may appear to be your run-of-the-mill bumbling cops, but in season 3, Taggart is revealed to be a Krav Maga instructor for the FBI.
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* HiddenDepths: They may appear to be your run-of-the-mill bumbling cops, in season 3, Taggart is revealed to be a Krav Maga instructor for the FBI.
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* BoringInvincibleHero: For a while early on, Eliot didn't even fight anyone who gave him a challenge. Since then, he's taken a few serious beatings, but has yet to actually ''lose'' a fight.

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* BoringInvincibleHero: For a while early on, Eliot didn't even fight anyone who gave him a challenge. Since then, he's taken a few serious beatings, but has yet to actually ''lose'' a fight. At least it makes him immune to TheWorfEffect.
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* BoringInvincibleHero: For a while early on, Eliot never lost a fight.

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* BoringInvincibleHero: For a while early on, Eliot never lost didn't even fight anyone who gave him a challenge. Since then, he's taken a few serious beatings, but has yet to actually ''lose'' a fight.
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* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: It's part of her job. She doesn't always mean for it to become a part of her personal life, but it occasionally does.
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* CharacterAlignment: Has gone from ChaoticNeutral to ChaoticGood as he [[CharacterDevelopment develops a sense of compassion]].

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* CharacterAlignment: Has gone from ChaoticNeutral to ChaoticGood as he [[CharacterDevelopment develops develops]] [[TinMan a sense sense]] [[DefrostingIceQueen of compassion]].

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* {{Omniglot}}: Speaks Chinese and Serbian and presumably other languages. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because she is a world traveler with a professional need to speak local languages.



* FriendToAllChildren: Surprisingly. He has particular compassion for kids who've drawn the short stick of life, but even spoiled rich kids love him.



* {{Omniglot}}: Speaks Hebrew and Arabic and possibly other languages. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because he is a world traveler with a professional need to speak local languages.



* RenaissanceMan: Paints, sculpts, hacks, plays violin, and he's a decent actor to boot.

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* RenaissanceMan: Paints, sculpts, hacks, plays violin, and he's a decent actor to boot. Oh, and he taught himself a crash course in creating period-looking art that holds up to pretty amazingly close inspection.


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* FriendToAllChildren: Not just orphans, either. In "The Wedding Job," she is seen teaching a young girl how to pick a lock.

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* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticGood, bordering on ChaoticNeutral at this point.



* CharacterAlignment: Started out ChaoticNeutral, but through CharacterDevelopment became ChaoticGood.



* CharacterAlignment: Has gone from ChaoticNeutral to ChaoticGood as he [[CharacterDevelopment develops a sense of compassion]].



* CharacterAlignment: Started out ChaoticNeutral, is now ChaoticGood.



* BunnyEarsLawyer: WordOfGod is that Parker has UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome.

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* BunnyEarsLawyer: WordOfGod is that Parker has may have UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome.


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* CharacterAlignment: Originally ChaoticNeutral, now ChaoticGood.


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* CharacterAlignment: ChaoticNeutral. She never bought into the Robin Hood idea. Crime is just her job.
* ConMan: She's a fabulous grifter, but tends to play characters that are completely different from any of Sophie's.


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* CharacterAlignment: LawfulGood. It makes his relationship with Nate complex. According to his wife, he would like to buy Nate a drink, then arrest him. All the same, he doesn't chase Nate, and takes him very seriously if he has a tip-off.
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* CatchPhrase: "Dammit, Hardison!"

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* CatchPhrase: "Dammit, Hardison!"Hardison!" and "It's a very distinctive [[MadLibsCatchPhrase (impossibly small detail he can use to identify something or someone)]]."
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* PapaWolf: Eliot has a tendency to find various strays that strike a chord with him for whatever reason and causes him to become extremely protective of for the rest of the current job.

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* PapaWolf: Eliot has a tendency to find various strays that strike a chord with him for whatever reason and causes him to become reason. He becomes extremely (read: scarily) protective of them for the rest of the current job.
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** Also Robert Duvall's younger self in {{Secondhand Lions}}.

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** Also Robert Duvall's younger self in {{Secondhand Lions}}.''{{Secondhand Lions}}''.
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** Also Robert Duvall's younger self in {{Secondhand Lions}}.


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* PapaWolf: Eliot has a tendency to find various strays that strike a chord with him for whatever reason and causes him to become extremely protective of for the rest of the current job.

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* GuileHero

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* GuileHeroGuileHero: Everything she does is about using her brain to manipulate people into doing what she wants. The show even gets into the psychology behind her manipulations.
-->'''Sophie:''' I'm a grifter. If I'm doing my job right, they just...turn the alarm off for me.
* TheHeart: Ironically, as Nate was the "honest man" who got everyone to work together, she's become Nate's moral compass and the emotional center of the group.

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* InsufferableGenius: Interestingly, he's so charismatic by nature that he's generally easy to forgive when he gets into a bragging spiel. The other characters [[{{Understatement}} aren't quite as charmed as the audience]], though.
-->'''Hardison:''' You're wondering if I have an answer? I do! BAM!
* LastNameBasis: Everybody else is called by their first names, but the creators loved the sound of "Dammit, Hardison!"



* LastNameBasis: Everybody else is called by their first names, but the creators loved the sound of "Dammit, Hardison!"
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* Antihero

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* Antihero{{Antihero}}

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The savantism idea has been Jossed by John Rogers.


* DeadpanSnarker: "Hey, Eliot, what is that blocking your button cam? Oh yeah, it's your ''ego.''"

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* DeadpanSnarker: "Hey, DeadpanSnarker:
-->'''Hardison:''' Hey,
Eliot, what is that blocking your button cam? Oh yeah, it's your ''ego.''"''



* DisabilitySuperpower: It could be argued, since UsefulNotes/AspergerSyndrome and other forms of autism sometimes lead to extreme savantism, that Parker's prowess as a thief could be linked to this.

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* Antihero



* CombatPragmatist:
-->'''Nate:''' Did you just kill a guy with an appetizer?\\
'''Eliot:''' I dunno, maybe.



* TinMan: He ''is'' developing a sense of compassion and empathy, but doesn't quite have the hang of it yet.

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* TinMan: Particularly in the first season. He ''is'' developing a sense of compassion and empathy, but doesn't quite have the hang of it yet.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: With Hardison.
* WouldHitAGirl: But only if she hits him first.



* [[HappilyAdopted Happily Fostered]]: He calls his foster mom "Nana" and speaks of her with great fondness. She was apparently a powerfully positive influence in his life.




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* VitriolicBestBuds: With Eliot.
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--> '''Sophie:''' "Meat" should never be an adjective.

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--> '''Sophie:''' "Meat" should never be used as an adjective.
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* Badass: '''Sterling. Never. Loses.'''

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* Badass: {{Badass}}: '''Sterling. Never. Loses.'''
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***But she has been in Juvie.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: In a weird, kinda twisted and ruthless way, as seen in "The Three-Card Monte Job."
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* TinMan: He ''is'' developing a sense of compassion and empathy, but doesn't quite have the hang of it yet.

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